Figure 2

Contents of major cell wall components. The cellulose, lignin, pectin and hemicellulose contents were measured in the fibres of the transgenic flax line B14 (striped black bar) and the non-transgenic control flax Nike (black bar). Analyses were performed as described in the Methods section. Data represent the mean values ± SD from four independent experiments. The significance of the differences between the means was determined using Student’s t test (* - P < 0.05, ** - P < 0.01).